Before the Nickelodeon: The Early Cinema of Edwin S. Porter (1982) | Full Cast

Charles Musser

DIRECTOR

Warren Leight

WRITER

Charles Musser

WRITER

Blanche Sweet

Narrator(voice)

Jay Leyda

Reader - Thomas A. Edison(voice)

Rob Issen

Reader - Corbett-Courtney Fight(voice)

Robert Sklar

Reader - Porter's Naval Record(voice)

Robert Rosen

Reader - Vitascope's First Night(voice)

Mitchell Kriegman

Reader - 'Kiss' Review(voice)

Peter Davis

Reader - Eden Musee(voice)

D.A. Pennebaker

Reader - Film as a Visual Newspaper(voice)

Milos Forman

Reader - The Biddle Brothers(voice)

Warren Leight

Reader - Terrible Teddy(voice)

Rick King

Reader - Sampson-Schley Controversy(voice)

Anthony Potter

Reader - Fighting the Flames(voice)

Louis Malle

Reader - Melies Catalogue(voice)

Robert Altman

Reader - 'Jack And The Beanstalk' Promo(voice)

Jim Walton

Reader - 'Jack And The Beanstalk'(voice)

Michael Peyser

Reader - Edison Studio(voice)

Grahame Weinbren

Reader - 'Eagle's Nest' Review(voice)

Steve Brier

Reader - Adolph Zukor(voice)

Thomas A. Edison

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Edwin S. Porter

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